Rockchip RK3066 based mini PCs are clearly the most popular in the market, and after the discovery of one AllWinner A20 HDMI dongle, and one AllWinner A31 mini PC earlier this week, it’s time for the first mini PC based on Rockchip R3188 quad core Cortex A9 processor called CloudnetGo CR9.

This Android 4.1 device will be sold with an HDMI cable, a USB power cable, a user manual, and an optional power adapter. This would be the most powerful mini PC to date, although you may not notice that much of performance improvement compared to the dual core version, unless you run multiple demanding tasks in Android. There’s no information about availability, nor pricing at the moment. There’s a page about CR9 in the manufacturer website (in Chinese), but it just seems to promote how “RK3188 is so much better than A31”.

Once GPL source code for one of RK3188 tablets is released, members of PicUntu community may want to work on porting their Rockchip RK3066 distro to the latest RK3188 mini PCs, so there’s hope with Linux support, probably excluding 2D/3D GPU acceleration and VPU support.

I usually have something to comment about everything but this one is just too nice. Even looks cool, I like it.
Only thing better would have been a quad core A15 but that will probably not be at this price.
Speaking of price if this is cheap enough it’s perfect.

I think the main difference is that one has BT and the other not. According to geekbuying (I asked a question there, it is supposed to have BT anyway, even if many of the pages with specs doesn’t mention this fact)